Frank M. McDonald, 1900

​From multiple angles, our Q.T.V. and Omega Mu brothers have enriched the civic life at the University of Maine, and we are fortunate to have had many hardworking, talented brothers throughout our history. The balance between our athletic involvement, intellectual pursuits, and campus involvement is compelling. What they accomplished in their respective pursuits at the university constitutes a wonderful achievement in our fraternal history. There efforts were good and laudable, and there efforts represented the very best of our core values of persistence and determination. It is, believe me, a wonderful achievement, on the part of generations of Omega Mu brothers, for the respective gifts that they gave for the civic good at the University of Maine. In our historically calm, customary fashion, 150 years and growing, it was a rich yield for the common good of the Maine community, All of them, through their various commitments and endeavors within the University of Maine community, improved and brightened up the quality of life of the university community with their enthusiasm and dedication to their respective University of Maine teams, organizations, and clubs. They each had uniques strengths as actors, artists, musicians, athletes, and journalists, and they all embodied the shared commitment to do something well for the University of Maine community. Fraternally integrity demands that, and we are proud of all of these brothers. 

Over the years, many of our Omega Mu brothers held leadership roles on various University of Maine newspapers and yearbooks. Their contributions in creating something good in the university community cannot be overstated. "Good" does not, in reality, do justice in acknowledging their positive contributions. Each of them performed a vital function for the University of Maine community. They had a willingness to work, the willingness to accept challenges, in order to be focused, informative journalist in order to create daily newspapers and yearbooks that were interesting and informative. Their leadership style was authentic, and their generous, laborious work deserve praise and recognition in our brotherhood. They collected information, organized information, checked and re-checked facts, shared ideas, read and re-read every article, and proofed and re-proofed every page in the yearbook. They always gave of their time and talent in attending to each of these elements in order to write commendable, informative, and properly edited newspaper articles, and in sifting through thousands of pictures and thoughtfully crafting, shaping, and editing yearbooks. Their hard work, in turn, was to produce something, whether it was the university newspaper or yearbook, that was well-written, well-edited, and journalistically constructive, interesting, meaningful, and significant, in the short or long term. 

With drive and persistence, what our Q.T.C. and Omega Mu brothers achieved, in their numerous leadership roles on various newspapers and yearbooks, was complementary to everything we fraternally applaud for all of or brothers who were positively involved in the University of Maine community. What they achieved had real, enduring worth and value for the University of Maine community. They were indispensable. They made lasting contributions to the social well-being of the university community in keeping students well-informed and enlightened. These Omega Mu brothers embodied our old fraternal truth in being perseverant and determined in being faithful and generous with their gifts. In other words, our journalist brothers are a testament to our collective fraternal spirit of genuine integrity, industry, dedication, creativity, and commitment in adding to our long-standing history of civic engagement at the University of Maine. 

The noble ideals of our linked fraternal brotherhood started in 1848 and 1874, and our fraternal wheels have not stopped turning in continuing to create a generationally great brotherhood, and there will not be a breakdown. With enthusiasm and dedication, we will continue to build upon our unique fraternal legacy at the University of Maine for many decades come! It is exciting and rewarding to know that we will continue to have a great fraternal future because we have an undisputed claim to durable greatness in being the oldest, most dedicated fraternal brotherhood at the University of Maine. Again, again, and again, we have always gotten on with the job of continuing to be the standard of fraternal excellence. And so, the passage of our 149  fraternal years will never stop us from honoring the rich legacy of those years as we look fraternally forward to the rich promise of our fraternal future.

​​From our fraternal founding through today, we remain the premier fraternal brotherhood at the University of Maine, and with equal parts of generational vision and vigilance that will continue for another 151 years. That's all. Perge.

Omega Mu Portrait
Frank M. McDonald,
1900

Q. T. V. - Omega Mu Years

Our Third Q.T.V. Chapter Hall

The first building on the right was our last Q. T. V. Chapter Hall after it was renovated to become Mount Vernon Hall, a dormitory for women, and our first Phi Gamma Delta Castle was built next door. In the middle distance, on the land to right of the white building next College Avenue, is the site where our present Phi Gamma Delta Castle would be built in 1924-1925.

Our recently finished first Phi Gamma Delta
Castle

"The Men of Omega Mu Shortly After installation In 1899..
Frank McDonald"

Civil War General Lew Wallace,
The National President Of The
​Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity

Major General Lew Wallace, the union general who saved Washington D.C. from being captured by the confederacy in 1864 at the Battle of the Monocacy in Frederick, Maryland.
Lew Wallace also wrote Ben Hur​. 

The blog writer has walked every inch of this battlefield many times with his two dogs, Dexter and Dudley, as well as Gettysburg, Antietam, Cold Harbor, and the Wilderness.

Burning the bridge over the Moncacy River delayed Jubal Early's advance on Washington D. C. just enough to save it
​from being captured. 

"An interesting football game took place on campus on  Saturday morning, Nov. 10, between the sophomores and freshmen of the Phi Gamma Delta House."

"Resulting in a score of 6 to 6."

"President...F. McDonald"

First Lieutenant and General Staff Officer...Frank McDonald

1898 Coburn Corps of Cadets
Encampment

'The Traitor...Frank McDonald"

Prentiss Prize for Sophomores
FRANK McDONALD

"The Peace Congress...Frank McDonald"

Junior Oration
Frank McDonald

​“What if the space be long and wide,
That parts us from our brother’s side
A soul-joined chain unites our band,
And memory links us hand in hand.”
(Phi Gamma Delta fraternity song)

Fraternally,
Chip Chapman, ’82
Perge